1. Internationalization. The Christian gospel is designed to be international and speaks powerfully to an international reality. Acts 13:1 describes an international and multicultural church that reached the world. The names of the church leaders variously indicate Roman, Greek, and Jewish backgrounds. This diverse congregation sent the first missionaries out into the Roman world. The great theological statement of the universal kingdom of God is Ephesians 2:11-22. By the power of the cross Christ smashed the walls that separate God from humanity and humans from each other: “For he himself is our peace” (v. 14). The result of Christ’s work is is the church, where human distinctions no longer matter and Christ’s peace unites fractured humanity. “Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircum-cised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all” (Col. 3:11).